Why is Hacker News red? Christmas?

Yes. It happens every year.

Someone should make a compendium of all the "Tell HN: Merry Christmas" and corresponding "Ask HN: Why did the colors change?" threads over the years. It would be fun, and is probably be a good fit for semantic search.

The Christmas color scheme is a bit off for me. The title bar is too light to read.

I turned off my dark theme and the page became high-contrast chromatic in my browser. It is readable like that, if brutally so.

and green

12/25 https://diehard.fandom.com/wiki/Nakatomi_Plaza never forget, at Midnight, Hans Gruber falls off the tower. :)

Wrong answers only! It's a secret feature of HN, like the black bar, but for when someone has made Dan angry.

Made a request so I can keep using that when Christmas is over. It makes HN usable to me. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46382452

The red looks great overall. Changing the text to white might improve contrast and readability. I experimented with red in my app, but it didn’t work visually, so I moved to a snowfall theme.

it's beyond dumb to change the color to red but keep the text black.